Publication | International Conference of the International Building Performance Simulation Association 2019
Building Performance Implications of Occupant Mobility
Abstract
Building Performance Implications of Occupant Mobility
Sara Gilani, Rhys Goldstein, Simon Breslav, Alex Tessier, William O’Brien
International Conference of the International Building Performance Simulation Association 2019
In the ongoing effort to improve building performance predictions, a key question is whether it is important to consider variations of occupant distributions resulting from inter-zone occupant mobility inside a building. The objective of this research is to study the impact of various occupant distributions on building performance predictions using simulation. A generic office building in Toronto, Canada, was simulated under homogeneous and heterogeneous distributions of occupants using EnergyPlus. The simulation results showed that as occupant mobility inside a building led to varied occupants’ densities at the zone level, zone-level energy use and unmet hours are dependent on occupant mobility.
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